After turning professional, she was manager and head coach at the Wagon Wheel Ice Palace in Rockton, Illinois for 17 years.
During that period, the Wagon Wheel rink—part of a larger resort complex—was one of the top figure skating training centers in the United States.
Kohout coached not only Lynn but also 3-time U.S. champion Gordon McKellen, several other international competitors, and other skaters who have gone on to become prominent coaches or skating judges, such as Shepherd Clark, The 2017, 2018, 2019 World Figure & Fancy Skating Champion of World Figure Sport / "WFS", at which Kohout was an official, an honoree, and a 2015 World Figure Sport Hall of Fame inductee in Lake Placid, NY.
Slavka Kohout was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2002.
They had children Emily and Edward together, but subsequently divorced[2] in part because of Button's then-closeted homosexuality.